Stifle doesnt really see much play nowadays. Rug Delver may or may not play it and the Top delver deck, Patriot delver doesnt play it. I don't think stifles are going to trend that much upward.
Legacy has Flusterstorm, which is generally played more in the board over Swan Song. The 2/2 is a major disadvantage in Legacy where incremental advantage is important. Swan Song is good in 2 decks, Vintage Oath where you want to give your opponent 2/2s and Legacy Sneak Show for the mirror. Even then, it's arguable if it's better than Pierce/Flusterstorm/Red Elemental Blast. If you fight an early counterwar with Swan Song, you may die to 2/2 beats. In a counter war, Flusterstorm is still the best. However in Duel Commander, I'm seeing Flusterstorm in some Zur decks, because the deck is essentially combo and protecting Zur is the most important thing. I'm already running Pierce/Fluster so Swan Song is in there as well.
I see non-foils at a couple dollars (max 3-4) and foils maxing out in the teens (15-18). It sees very niche sideboard play and fights for slots against the more versatile REB (Kills Jace & True Name Nemesis, doesn't give opponent a 2/2) and Flusterstorm (Essentially a split second counterspell).
I think Jace prices have finally bottomed out. FTV Jaces are sold out at promo prices from SCG and Channelfireball. I think Jace can only go up from here.
Thanks alot! I recently changed my cutting technique after the Sharuum. The edges on my first few 3d cards were rough because I was cutting away from my body (so I don't cut myself). But this caused the angle of the knife to be suboptimal for cutting. I now cut towards myself and the results are much better (as seen on the Merieke). I also use separate knives for spacer cutting and details cutting to preserve the blade's sharpness. I have no issue cutting up my own alters as I can always paint another if I make a mistake. However, it is rather nerve racking as you spent so much time painting the card. Re-painting would be very painful. Cheers!
Open it and sell the pieces at or near the lowest for a NM copy on TCG or eBay and you should sell it pretty quickly and get the most money in total.
The Jace alone is worth $80 or more and at least 3 of the others should get you ~$10 (all before fees of course.). You may even be able to sell the open box on eBay for a few more bucks separately.
I'd say it's worth at least 2.5 times or more it's msrp right now sealed. If you put it up on eBay for ~$110 sealed for buy it now it'll probably sell in 1 to 5 days. If you put it up for auction it should get you ~$100 to ~$130.
Edit: As for long term value? I'd venture to say that the cards opened or sealed are pretty much at rock bottom of where they are going to fall to or very near it. I've been monitoring the prices every few days at least since July presales and they appear to have settled at a minimum value. If people are looking to get these now is the time to pick them up. Honestly? Id guess that this set with all of the good stuff in it could be worth as much as double what its worth now in 10 months. A conservative estimate , IMO, is that sealed sets should be going for $150+ in 10 months.
I agree totally that it's rock bottom now. Given that Jace is the best planeswalker that has ever and most likely will ever be printed, eventually the ftv jace will recover to the 150 usd price tag. All the other good stuff like dynamo, gilded lotus and fact or fiction are edh staples and very easily sellable. Stp, hymn, venser etc with new art are very desirable. I see the box going back up to 200 in a couple of months easily.
Flusterstorm sees alot of play in Legacy. It's a 2-3 of sideboard card in almost all blue decks. Some combo decks (high tide) plays Flusterstorm maindeck. I'm willing to bet that you will see more flusterstorms than Nemesis in blue legacy decks at any given Legacy tournament because flusterstorms have to be somewhere in the 75 to stop combo.
Therefore I'm expecting nemesis to eventually cool to the 15-25 USD range. This makes the Grixis deck a good deal only at MSRP because Baleful Strix is going to crash as well.
The best comparisons for Nemesis is Etched Champion, Mirran Crusader and Geist. All or which are hard to remove and pack a punch. How heavily played are these? They see some play but not heavily because powerful vanilla beatsticks get raped by combo and sweepers.
Clique and Snapcaster will not be replaced by Nemesis, they do different things. But the above commandos will compete with Nemesis for slots. As Etched Champion and Mirran Crusader are in different colours, they won't be affected. However Geist will be affected slightly, a split of Geist and Nemesis is likely. UWR delver plays like 2 Geist because 3 mana is a lot so it's not format warping to have 1 Geist and 1 Nemesis in UWR delver.
Most stoneblade lists do not play Geist. Stoneblade has 3 Clique and 4 Snapcaster at the 3cc slot and Vindicate/Lingering souls waiting to take a few MD slots. I don't see nemesis in any Stoneblade lists because the 3cc slot is just way too packed.
Nice list. Few questions.
1. Why not straight ub. This way you can run Dralnu as a general which is a built in yawgs will in case doomsday is countered.
2. Why no shelldock emrakul? Btw emrakul is not banned in duel commander.
Shelldock emrakul is so much easier to pull off and is immune to creature hate.
I see non-foils at a couple dollars (max 3-4) and foils maxing out in the teens (15-18). It sees very niche sideboard play and fights for slots against the more versatile REB (Kills Jace & True Name Nemesis, doesn't give opponent a 2/2) and Flusterstorm (Essentially a split second counterspell).
I'm currently having this problem:
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I agree totally that it's rock bottom now. Given that Jace is the best planeswalker that has ever and most likely will ever be printed, eventually the ftv jace will recover to the 150 usd price tag. All the other good stuff like dynamo, gilded lotus and fact or fiction are edh staples and very easily sellable. Stp, hymn, venser etc with new art are very desirable. I see the box going back up to 200 in a couple of months easily.
Therefore I'm expecting nemesis to eventually cool to the 15-25 USD range. This makes the Grixis deck a good deal only at MSRP because Baleful Strix is going to crash as well.
Clique and Snapcaster will not be replaced by Nemesis, they do different things. But the above commandos will compete with Nemesis for slots. As Etched Champion and Mirran Crusader are in different colours, they won't be affected. However Geist will be affected slightly, a split of Geist and Nemesis is likely. UWR delver plays like 2 Geist because 3 mana is a lot so it's not format warping to have 1 Geist and 1 Nemesis in UWR delver.
Most stoneblade lists do not play Geist. Stoneblade has 3 Clique and 4 Snapcaster at the 3cc slot and Vindicate/Lingering souls waiting to take a few MD slots. I don't see nemesis in any Stoneblade lists because the 3cc slot is just way too packed.
Anyway zoo is dead in Legacy since Snapcaster and Terminus started making aggro really really bad.
1. Why not straight ub. This way you can run Dralnu as a general which is a built in yawgs will in case doomsday is countered.
2. Why no shelldock emrakul? Btw emrakul is not banned in duel commander.
Shelldock emrakul is so much easier to pull off and is immune to creature hate.